Kate Garraway has exposed that she still gets up in the the night worrying that she hasn't given her late spouse Derek Draper his medicine.

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, assessed his end of life care in a candid brand-new interview on Wednesday.
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Derek died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year fight with long Covid.

Speaking in The Sun, she told of how those difficult years stay in her ideas.

She described: 'I still get up in the middle of the night panicking that I have not offered him his medication, or that I have forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the unpleasant contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has actually revealed that she still wakes up in the the night stressing that she hasn't given her late partner Derek Draper his medicine

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reflected on his end of life care in a candid brand-new interview on Wednesday

'The next second I understand he no longer requires that care. There is a minute of relief - that I did not let him down - before a tsunami of unhappiness hits.

'Caring takes over your entire life. You do not resent it, but you suffer due to the fact that of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering extreme tension while husband Derek was in recovery.

She needed medical help of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and discovering she couldn't move to turn it off.

In her book, The Strength Of Love, the presenter described how she then felt a 'searing discomfort' in her chest and was instantly required to the nearby A&E for tests.

Kate has actually been hectic handling a hectic work schedule, as the true extent of her debts are exposed.

She has actually honestly discussed how she has been entrusted financial obligations in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after taking care of her late other half Derek.

As well as dealing with debts related to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a new liquidator's report has revealed the big tax costs that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic business Astra Aspera.

Derek died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year battle with long Covid (seen in 2007)

She described: 'I still get up in the middle of the night stressing that I haven't provided him his medicine'

The company, which was collectively controlled by Kate, failed owing hundreds of countless pounds to lenders, consisting of a large bill to HMRC.

Kate has been hectic promoting her various work tasks as her financial obligations loom over her but it's not the first time the broadcaster has needed to handle financial woes.

In 2012, two other firms collectively managed by Derek and Kate went bust.

Fulfill Media Ltd had debts amounting to ₤ 922,807, that included ₤ 88,486 owed to HMRC, ₤ 90,882 to trade financial institutions, and ₤ 462,808 in '3rd party loans'.

At the same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, which included ₤ 98,944 to the taxman and ₤ 48,000 on an overdrawn directors loan account. Derek and Kate were both personally owed ₤ 24,000 each by the company.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to sell the home to repay her current financial obligations with one source stating: 'It has actually cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to look after Derek and do whatever she might to get him better but it's left her having a hard time.'

But hard-working Kate has actually been on a self-promotion blitz in the middle of her most current financial troubles.

Alongside her routine GMB work, the star plugged her Smooth Radio show this week, exposing she was 'chuffed' that the lunch break show now reached 2.8 million listeners.

She has also been teasing her signing in possibly among the most anticipated TV shows of year - Celebrity Traitors.

In addition to the similarity Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a few weeks ago to film the spin off of the smash struck BBC series.

Meanwhile, in February she was revealed as the host of a new Dubai-set podcast and YouTube series - DXB Unheard.

Each of the eight episodes, which are released weekly, function interviews with Emiratis and Dubai residents 'who have left an enduring mark on the city.'

She recorded the series last year and has confessed that she discovered it 'interesting' to discover how individuals lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future plans.

Kate formerly exposed that Derek's ₤ 16,000-a-month care costs eclipsed her GMB income, admitting in a 2023 that she could not even afford to have the heating on in October.

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts due to stress in the middle of hubby Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I believed I was having a heart attack'

Speaking before her partner's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care expenses more than my salary from ITV which is before you spend for a mortgage, before you pay any home expenses, before you spend for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.

'I am in debt. I can't earn sufficient cash to cover my financial obligation due to the fact that I am handling Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do need to support Derek's healing, due to the fact that it's going on the basics all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate openly exposed she's turned to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the huge costs throughout a discussion about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

Sharing the results of a study that exposed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into debt while funding personal treatment, she admitted: 'I am doing something similar myself.

'I have actually needed to withdraw the bit you can tax totally free from my pension to spend for belated bills for my partner, who has actually now died.

'People are needing to do things - it wasn't a big pension in the first place - which aren't what they conserved for.'

Addressing the most recent HMRC filing, Kate's representative told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'stunned' TV star 'doesn't identify these figures' and is in contact with HMRC to ensure she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest discomforts after suffering extreme stress while spouse Derek remained in healing

Their declaration checked out: 'Kate has actually satisfied all that the liquidators of Derek's company have actually requested for and more over the past 4 years.

'She doesn't acknowledge these figures and is stunned that it's being presented in this way by them.

'Caring for Derek and supporting her household when Derek could no longer run his own organizations has taken a substantial monetary toll on her but she's figured out to put things right.

'She is in continuous contact with HMRC to make certain she honours what's required from Derek's now defunct company.'

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